From: Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>
To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs org-mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: A shorter manual
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:24:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u2w20524da71004281024ocf6225f9y371220f5e10a8c54@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <096F60B3-65ED-464E-8CDC-1041CA69B706@gmail.com>
Great idea.
If the manual were in org, then the tag, :basic:, would suffice. Just
export only that tag. But maybe that is more work instead of less?
On 2010-04-28, Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> with the Org-mode manual moving toward 200 pages, I am
> starting to worry that people with stop in their tracks
> when considering Org-mode, just because of the sheer size
> of the manual.
>
> So I did a little experiment. I took the manual and stripped
> everything which could be considered advanced material, but
> keeping all features and all basic commands and customizations.
>
> What remains are about 50 pages. A document with the same
> structure (even the same chapter numbers) as the manual.
> I am wondering if it would be useful to have this as a beginners
> document - or if the existence of this document would lead
> to more confusion than relief.
>
> http://orgmode.org/orgguide.pdf
>
> I don't see this a an alternative for the manual - just
> as an additional, rather static document, with little need for
> updates. The manual would continue to be the comprehensive
> and constantly updated document.
>
> Comments are welcome.
>
> - Carsten
>
>
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-28 17:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-28 15:46 A shorter manual Carsten Dominik
2010-04-28 15:57 ` Erik Iverson
2010-04-28 17:05 ` Dan Davison
2010-04-28 18:43 ` Matti De Craene
2010-04-28 21:52 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-04-29 17:23 ` Dan Davison
2010-04-29 21:27 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-04-29 22:14 ` Dan Davison
2010-04-29 22:36 ` Samuel Wales
2010-04-30 6:47 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-05-01 6:41 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-04-30 14:12 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-05-02 10:13 ` Matti De Craene
2010-04-28 17:06 ` Dan Davison
2010-04-28 16:00 ` Marco
2010-04-28 16:45 ` Thomas S. Dye
2010-04-28 17:24 ` Samuel Wales [this message]
2010-04-28 17:27 ` Samuel Wales
2010-04-28 18:59 ` Thomas S. Dye
2010-04-28 21:34 ` Sebastian Rose
2010-04-29 22:37 ` Samuel Wales
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